We will go northward and eastward, asking news of Rogers and his Rangers.

It may be that we shall fall in with them, and that we can make common cause with them against the common foe." So said Stark, speaking for all his band, for all were of one heart and one mind.
Therefore, after a few days for rest and refreshment, the little army retreated whence it had come; whilst the bold band of Rangers started forth for the other scene of action, away towards the north, along the frozen lakes which formed one of the highways to Canada..